CAMERON APOLOGY FALLS FLAT

NOT everyone buys Cameron Diaz‘s apology for traipsing around Peru carrying a bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People,” Communist icon Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan, printed in Chinese. Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, told Page Six, “It is bad enough that Diaz wears a bag quoting history’s most prolific butcher, but what’s even worse is that she is of Cuban heritage and really should know something about the true history of communism. There is a double standard here that boggles the mind: Had she worn a bag quoting Himmler or Pinochet, she would likely face career annihilation, and rightly so.” While the Mao bag is ultrachic on the Upper West Side and college campuses, in Peru, the “Serve the People” slogan evokes memories of the bloodthirsty Shining Path terrorists who left nearly 70,000 dead. “I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended,” Diaz said in a statement. “The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China, and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it.”